This site commemorates the
contributions made to modern science and medicine by brilliant scientists of the
past. We will focus on but five such persons:
Edward Jenner, Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, Ignaz Semmelweis, and Joseph
Baron Lister. We
will provide reviews of their work and present them in human terms.
In this way we hope that young laboratory scientists well provided with the
latest knowledge of recombinant DNA technology, the decoding of the human
genome, gene therapy and proteonomics will recognize the debt they owe
to their predecessors -- without whose contributions their own knowledge
would be scant indeed! --- David V. Cohn, Ph.D.
[Keywords
for this site: Jenner, Koch, Lister, Montegu, Pasteur, Semmelweis,
Phipps; anthrax, bacteriology,
biochemistry, charbon, chemistry, cowpox, crystallography, fermentation,
flacherie, infection, inoculation, microbiology, pasteurization, physiology,
rabies, rage, silkworm
disease, smallpox, spontaneous generation, stereochemistry,
vaccination, wine; childbed
fever;
History of
medicine and science] .
Pasteur in his Laboratory. Painting by Paul Edelfelt, Pasteur Institute, Paris
Jenner Vaccinating a Young Boy. Bronze by Guilio Monteverde. (Courtesy of The Wellcome
Library)
A note from the family of Dr. Cohn:
It is with great sadness that we are to inform the visitors to this
site that Dr. Cohn passed away recently. We have elected to keep this
website in tact as he put hundreds of hours into this beautiful and important
website. His accomplishments on a personal and professional level are too
many to mention. He was a wonderful husband, father, chemist and
humanitarian.
brilliant scientists of the
past. We will focus on but five such persons:
Edward Jenner, Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, Ignaz Semmelweis, and Joseph
Baron Lister. We
will provide reviews of their work and present them in human terms.
In this way we hope that young laboratory scientists well provided with the
latest knowledge of recombinant DNA technology, the decoding of the human
genome, gene therapy and proteonomics will recognize the debt they owe
to their predecessors -- without whose contributions their own knowledge
would be scant indeed! --- David V. Cohn, Ph.D.
